Sharing an opportunity involves someone else. This is where the limits are.

When an opportunity involves someone else, you tell nod one of two things: that you already have their permission to be contacted about it, or that we should ask them first.

If you choose to ask first, nod does not email them. We create a private, single-use link and send it to you to forward. They decide for themselves, in their own words, and give their own contact details if they agree. If they decline, the opportunity is closed.

Saying you have permission when you do not is the one thing that makes this system unsafe for the people in it. Please do not.

Do not submit anything based on:

• confidential or commercially sensitive material you are bound to protect;
• information you have only because of a role, contract or duty you hold;
• anything obtained unlawfully, or in a way the person would object to;
• documents, credentials or data belonging to someone else.

If you would be uncomfortable with the person seeing exactly how you came to know something, that is the signal to stop.

You do not need to paste someone’s full contact record, personal circumstances, or private history. Describe the need and your connection to it. Contact details come from the person themselves through the consent route wherever permission has not already been given.

Until the applicable approvals and licences are in place, nod does not accept opportunities involving patient or medical-treatment referrals, legal-client solicitation, insurance, securities, investment or other regulated financial products, real-estate transactions that may require registration, or government contracts, public employment and procurement.

Anyone can decline, at the invitation stage or afterwards. A declined opportunity is closed and the person is not approached about it again. If you are contacted by nod and want that to stop, say so and it stops.

It is rejected with a reason recorded. Repeated or deliberate misuse — particularly claiming permission that does not exist — ends access, and no benefit is payable on anything affected.

If you believe an opportunity involving you was submitted improperly, contact us and we will tell you what is held and remove it.